Bedell Guitars acquired the largest collection of Brazilian rosewood tonewood in the world. Long heralded as natures finest sounding tonewood, Bedell has developed a Sound Optimizing process that analyzes the music potential of each set and sands each back accordingly. The sound that emanates...

Bedell Custom Acoustic Guitar: “Stripe” Designed by: Doug Hebenthal Written by Tom Bedell Imagine the journey of a 2,000 – 3,000-year-old giant redwood tree, toppling into the Pacific Ocean in Northern California and swept by wind and waves, finally resting on the Manzanita Beach,...

Bedell Avalanche Custom Guitar Designed by Doug Hebenthal Bedell Guitars recently completed an extraordinary and noteworthy custom acoustic guitar that is a combination of high art, historical artifact and stunning instrument tied into one. The custom acoustic guitar has been named “Avalanche,” for reasons...

Like precious gems and metals, rosewood is a material that customers are willing to pay disproportionate amounts for, relative to the local economies where it grows. If those places suffer from weak governance, low observance of the rule of law, economic inequality and poverty,...

WRITTEN BY TOM BEDELL | PUBLISHED AUGUST 8TH, 2017 | MMR MAGAZINE America’s largest national forest – the Tongass in southeast Alaska – is the only national forest where commercial clear-cutting continues. This forest treasure has stood magnificently for thousands and thousands of years....